apt says: "This package depends on all of the packages in the Ubuntu minimal system, that is a minimally functional system that can boot and install more packages. It is safe to remove this package if some of the minimal system packages are not desired. However, it is recommended that you keep it installed, because it is used to carry out certain upgrade transitions (such as adding new packages to the system)."
That says ubuntu-minimal is meant to be removed if some part of a minimal system is not desired, not if you want to replace that part with an alternative fullfilling the same purpose. I think you're right saying it's not syslog-ng's problem. AFAIK, we have two problems with ubuntu-minimal: - its description does not explain the true purpose of that package (we booted and installed stuff long before having WiFi, so I'm not ever going to understand why wpasupplicant or similar things in its deps are needed to boot or install new packages). But this is definitely the wrong bug to discuss this. - it gets removed when using syslog-ng instead of syslog, so users loose its quality of bringing in 'upgrade transitions' through deps. And that's precisely the original subject of this bug (even if it's not a bug *in* syslog-ng). Maybe the "Right Thing" could be to have a package with dependencies for "upgrade transitions", as friendly as possible with any other choice the admin could take (like using an alternative syslogger), and another package to keep an established set of tested packages (and this would get removed when you choose to remove any of those packages to use alternative ones)? But maybe we're a little too late for this in dapper so we'll have to live with what we have. Just my two cents, and thanks for giving us ubuntu! -- syslog-ng causes ubuntu-minimal to be removed. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/42555 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
